Hmmm...I didn't notice that it was a different story. You may want to FReepMail the mods if it really was entirely different. I thought they were both the same story by "Sara A. Carter."
It's mainly just to keep the clutter down. Although, they seem to be especially vigilant on immigration topics lately. It is nice, though, to keep all the comments on the same thread when possible.
Mine was the same story but just a different newspaper - we must have been in the process of posting it at the same time and IrishMike was a little quicker than I was.
I was asking more about a totally different story as there are AP reports out about this now.